Recaps

Hisana met with Elder Kano, who warned her about the Uchiha Clan and gave her three advanced Sealing Jutsu to master. Meanwhile, Sirius learned that Izayoi was to become the General’s concubine and hurried to secure favor with her.

• Hisana arrived late to meet Elder Kano and agreed to answer the clan’s questions in exchange for gifts.
• Kano warned Hisana to be cautious around Uchiha Clan members and told her to get pregnant soon because another Uchiha girl would join the General’s household next year.
• Kano gave Hisana three advanced Sealing Jutsu and warned her that Oboro would monitor her training.
• Sirius lamented Izayoi’s transfer from Base 3 and considered asking Kakuzu to learn how she was doing.
• Sirius learned that Izayoi was the General’s intended concubine and ordered Chakra Ore sent to her as a gift from the base.

Aoi and Rinko gave birth to healthy sons, whom Yayoi named Tadayuki and Hideyuki, and Nene discovered that the newborns had extraordinary physiques and powerful life force. Yayoi took Nene to his underground laboratory and showed her a growing chakra life-form, then offered her some of his chakra to study.

• Aoi and Rinko gave birth to boys less than a day apart, and Yayoi named Aoi's son Tadayuki and Rinko's son Hideyuki.
• Nene examined the babies and found them healthy, capable of refining chakra, and physically gifted enough to have Jonin potential.
• Nene noticed the boys shared an unusually powerful life force and asked Yayoi to let her study his body.
• Yayoi led Nene into the underground complex and showed her a Chakra Crystal Core growing into a living form inside a cultivation tank.
• Yayoi explained that the chakra life-form had emerged from his exploration of chakra and involved Yin-Yang Release, then offered Nene some of his chakra to analyze.

Hisana went out with Oboro to buy snacks despite a wave of assassinations targeting officials across smaller nations. A disguised Kusagakure envoy tried to kill Hisana, but Oboro blocked him and Hisana killed him, leaving the Security Forces to investigate his identity.

• Oboro warned Hisana that assassins had been targeting officials and ninja leaders in smaller countries, but Hisana dismissed the danger as they went shopping.
• At the dessert shop, the owner handed Hisana a package and suddenly stabbed at her with a kunai.
• Oboro blocked the attack, and Hisana struck the attacker with a chakra-powered punch that killed him and exposed his true appearance.
• Security Forces officers arrived, and a Hoshigaki Clan ninja recognized the dead man as a Kusagakure Special Jonin who had recently served as an envoy to Nightview City.
• Oboro arranged for Hisana to be escorted back to the General's Residence while the Security Forces took charge of the scene.

After Hisana killed a Kusagakure envoy who tried to assassinate her, Yayoi reassured her and sent Kicho to investigate the upheaval in Kusagakure and negotiate an apology, a break with the culprit, and compensation. Hisana thanked Oboro for protecting her, then invited her to join her and Yayoi that night, leaving Oboro flustered but thinking of her clan’s future.

• Yayoi and Kicho found Hisana unharmed but distressed after she accidentally killed the Kusagakure envoy who had tried to assassinate her.
• Yayoi and Kicho told Hisana she was the victim and agreed that the envoy had likely acted with accomplices who had surveilled her for months.
• Yayoi ordered Kicho to travel to Kusagakure, investigate what had changed there, and seek an apology, a break with the culprit, and appropriate compensation.
• Yayoi and Kicho left to handle the aftermath, while Oboro reassured Hisana that she had done nothing wrong.
• Hisana thanked Oboro for intercepting the attack and invited her to join her and Yayoi that night, leaving Oboro embarrassed as she considered the invitation a duty to her clan.

Kicho investigated the attack on the Land of Night by visiting war-torn Kusagakure and learned that its missing ninja, Black Fang, had acted as an assassin. After Kusagakure disavowed him, Yayoi suspected that a secret alliance of exiled, defeated ninja was targeting the established order, and expected the Five Kage to respond.

• Kicho arrived in devastated Kusagakure and met its new leader, Kyoukotsu, who explained that an attack had killed the previous leader and some officials had defected.
• Kicho discovered Mu and Iwagakure ninja searching Kusagakure's archives for Black Fang, a missing Jonin suspected of trying to assassinate the Tsuchikage.
• Kyoukotsu confirmed Black Fang's identity and learned from Kicho that he had attempted to assassinate Hisana in the Land of Night.
• Kicho searched Kusagakure's records for Black Fang's associates and movements, then returned to the Land of Night with information and Kyoukotsu's promise of a public apology.
• Kyoukotsu branded Black Fang a rogue ninja and severed Kusagakure's ties with him, while Yayoi concluded that multiple groups might be sowing discord across the Ninja World.
• Yayoi theorized that exiled losers from ninja villages had formed a secret alliance, and told Kicho to wait for the Five Kage to act.

Yayoi traveled secretly to Konoha to join representatives of the great ninja villages in planning an operation against a network of exiled ninja behind recent assassinations and attacks. The meeting ended with the revelation that Kumogakure’s Eight-Tails Jinchūriki, Hirubi, had joined the group and was trying to overthrow Raikage A.

• Yayoi arrived in Konoha with Yaya and joined Tobirama, Mu, Shamon, and Hozuki Gengetsu for a secret meeting.
• Hashirama Senju and Raikage A joined the meeting, where A explained that exiled ninja from several villages had orchestrated recent attacks and killings.
• Tobirama said Konoha had located the group’s base and proposed a covert strike by small elite teams, which the representatives accepted.
• A revealed that his cousin Hirubi, Kumogakure’s Eight-Tails Jinchūriki, had joined the group and intended to defeat A and seize control of the village.
• The representatives exchanged intelligence on dangerous enemy ninja, and Yayoi reviewed Hirubi’s file before preparing for the operation.

Hirubi watched the exiled Shinobi quarrel over their failed plans to seize villages until Mu and the allied forces launched an assault on their island fortress. Irori sealed the island in ice as the joint operation exterminated the rebels, leaving Yayoi to observe the other fighters’ techniques.

• Hirubi concluded that the exiled Shinobi could not work together, but he still needed their support to return to Hidden Cloud Village and defeat A.
• Mu attacked the meeting hall with Dust Release, erasing Shinobi as the rebels recognized his technique and tried to flee.
• Gengetsu killed fleeing Hidden Mist Village Shinobi with explosive bubble spheres while other allied forces swept through the fortress.
• Irori froze the forest, fortress, and surrounding sea, trapping the rebels on the island and freezing those who escaped the main battle.
• Shamon, Gengetsu, Yayoi, and Yaya fought across the frozen island as the allied forces hunted down the remaining rebels.

Hirubi fled Kumogakure after Mu attacked the conference room, but Raikage A intercepted him and tried to bring him back. Hirubi joined with the Eight-Tails and transformed, but A overwhelmed the beast and left Hirubi battered.

• A confronted Hirubi on the frozen shore and urged him to return to Kumogakure, but Hirubi accused A of betraying him and refused.
• Hirubi released the Eight-Tails' chakra, and together they transformed into the Eight-Tails and attacked A.
• A blocked the Eight-Tails' strike and struck the beast repeatedly with lightning-fast attacks.
• The Eight-Tails began forming a Tailed-Beast Bomb, but A hit it before it could fire, causing the bomb to explode at point-blank range.
• The Eight-Tails crashed to the ground and withdrew its chakra, revealing Hirubi's battered body.

A defeated Hirubi was captured after the Eight-Tails withdrew its chakra, while A reflected on the dangerous factions still hidden within the villages. After the allied forces destroyed the conspirators, Tobirama and Yayoi discussed how their countries might handle future threats and succession.

• The Eight-Tails refused to lend Hirubi more chakra, and A knocked Hirubi unconscious when he tried to undo his seal.
• A had a Hidden Cloud Village Jonin bind Hirubi with a sealing technique and planned to take him back to Kumogakure.
• The elite joint squad of the Five Great Nations and the Land of Night wiped out more than six hundred enemy ninja and gathered the bodies for destruction.
• Tobirama told Yayoi he expected the Ninja Academy to help civilian ninja grow and bring new strength to Konoha.
• Tobirama warned Yayoi that the Land of Night depended on capable heirs, and Yayoi replied that Konoha should prepare its next-next Hokage.

Yayoi oversaw the Land of Night’s renewed ties with Kusagakure while Konoha established a Military Police Force dominated by the Uchiha Clan. After spending time with Nene in his laboratory’s lounge, he asked her to help with experiments.

• Yayoi noted that Kusagakure had apologized and paid compensation for the assassination, while the Land of Night and Hidden Rock Village let the matter pass.
• Hashirama announced Konoha’s new Military Police Force, naming Uchiha Clan head Kuto as captain and assigning the Uchiha three quarters of its members.
• Tobirama explained to Hashirama that involving other clans would restrain the Uchiha and help integrate the village.
• Yayoi and Nene extended their time together in the laboratory lounge by an hour.
• Yayoi asked Nene to join him in conducting experiments.

Yayoi saw Nene’s experiments showing that his chakra healed a gravely wounded mouse far more effectively than Seven-Tails or Nine-Tails Chakra. Nene proposed that Yayoi was a second, immature source of chakra, and they concluded that the Ten-Tails might be key to fulfilling his goal of turning everything within himself into chakra.

• Nene showed Yayoi comparative chakra data and tested Seven-Tails, Nine-Tails, and Yayoi’s chakra on a nearly severed mouse.
• Yayoi’s chakra rapidly regenerated the mouse’s wound, outpacing the other chakra mixtures.
• Nene suggested that Yayoi’s chakra was closer to the source of chakra and that he might be a second, immature source.
• Nene connected Yayoi’s chakra to his ability to create Puppet Lifeforms and explained that he could manifest jutsu without mastering their foundations.
• Yayoi and Nene independently concluded that the Ten-Tails could help him turn everything within himself into chakra.

Yayoi and Nene discussed using Tailed Beast Chakra to pursue greater strength and developing life-extending medicine, while Yayoi restarted a search for ancient ruins. The chapter left Yayoi beginning Yin-Yang Release experiments on Unit Zero Puppet in hopes of giving it human-level intelligence.

• Nene proposed developing life-extending medicine, and Yayoi agreed to supply his Chakra for her research.
• Yayoi focused more heavily on Yin-Yang Release training while avoiding experiments on his own fragile body.
• Yayoi assigned Hokuto to lead a five-person team searching ancient ruins and gave him maps of the locations to investigate.
• Yayoi went underground to use Unit Zero Puppet as his first Yin-Yang Release test subject and began infusing it with Chakra.

Yayoi’s Hidden Sand Village students completed their final Puppet Technique examination, and he gave them guidance before they returned home. He then awakened the newly grown chakra lifeform Komurasaki, leaving her ready for her final transformation with the Seven-Tails.

• Formless defeated Chiyo in the final puppet battle by controlling eight puppets against her six, and Chiyo surrendered after losing three puppets.
• Yayoi congratulated the ten Hidden Sand Village students, gave them personalized scrolls with advice for their future development, and told them their village’s Jonin would collect them the next morning.
• Yayoi, Irori, Yaya, Nene, and the Seven-Tails gathered in the cultivation chamber to witness the completion of the chakra lifeform’s growth.
• Irori drained the cultivation tank, and Yayoi used Chakra Threads to awaken the girl, who opened her golden eyes and was dressed in a light-purple kimono.
• The Seven-Tails descended beside the newly awakened Komurasaki as Yayoi prepared to speak.

Yayoi successfully created a new chakra lifeform, Komurasaki, using chakra drained from the Seven-Tails, but her first appearance led to a clash with Yaya. He decided to let the two settle their rivalry themselves.

• Yayoi finished absorbing the Seven-Tails' chakra, leaving the beast diminished and asleep.
• Yayoi used Secret Art: Life Creation to form Chakra Circuits and infuse a new girl with the stored Tailed-Beast Chakra.
• The girl appeared lifeless until her Genjutsu projection vanished, revealing that Komurasaki had concealed herself and fooled the others' senses.
• Komurasaki hugged Yayoi from behind, provoking Yaya, and teased her while Yaya demanded a one-on-one fight.
• Yayoi withdrew from the confrontation and told Irori not to interfere, saying he found watching women fight interesting.

Yaya and Komurasaki fought in the forest, where Komurasaki used deceptive Genjutsu to challenge Yaya. Yayoi stopped Komurasaki before she could use a dangerous technique, gave her a Chakra Blade, and the sisters resumed their quarrel.

• Yaya and Komurasaki began a sparring match, and Komurasaki used the Worldly Wanderer Technique to hide herself and attack through false projections.
• Yayoi explained that Komurasaki cast Genjutsu on herself, and Yaya closed her eyes to find an opening and strike Komurasaki out of hiding.
• Komurasaki prepared a more dangerous Genjutsu, but Yayoi stopped her before she could use it on Yaya.
• Yayoi ended the fight and gave Komurasaki a purple Chakra Blade, which she happily accepted.
• Komurasaki teased Yayoi by asking for his more powerful Chakra Blade, and Yaya chased her while the sisters traded insults.

Yayoi tested Komurasaki’s Worldly Wanderer Technique against sensory ninjas and Uchiha and Hyuga observers, who struggled to distinguish its illusions from reality. He ended the test after seeing how easily the Genjutsu could leave its victims vulnerable to Komurasaki’s Taijutsu.

• Yayoi gathered fifteen ninjas, including sensory specialists and Uchiha and Hyuga clan members, to test Komurasaki’s Genjutsu.
• Komurasaki made the ground split and fireballs fall, convincing the participants they were facing real danger despite leaving them unharmed.
• Komurasaki’s illusions confused the sensory ninjas and created false meridian projections that defeated the Three-Tomoe Sharingan’s insight.
• The Hyuga ninja spotted Komurasaki’s faint outline with his Byakugan, while Kicho and Yayoi observed that only a few sensory specialists could track her movements.
• Yayoi explained that Komurasaki’s Genjutsu was designed to disrupt enemies before her powerful Taijutsu overwhelmed them, then stopped the test.

Yayoi reviewed the Land of Night’s military growth and plans for retiring older fighters while Komurasaki and Yaya competed for his attention. With his wedding to Izayoi two weeks away, Irori brought him the guest list, which included delegations from the great nations and ninja villages.

• Yayoi reviewed reports showing the Land of Night had grown to more than two thousand ninja and six thousand five hundred samurai, and he anticipated slower growth and waves of retirements.
• Yayoi told Irori to publish trial measures for supporting retiring fighters and adjust them according to the response.
• Komurasaki sat on Yayoi’s lap while Yaya tried to draw his attention, and Yayoi kept Komurasaki beside him as a guard to redirect Yaya’s focus.
• Yayoi let Aoi and Rinko leave early to check on their children, then finished their remaining work himself.
• Irori gave Yayoi the guest list for his wedding to Izayoi, scheduled for late April, and Yayoi saw that Mu and Tobirama were among the expected guests.

On the eve of Yayoi and Izayoi’s wedding, Hisana and Kicho lured Yayoi to the hot spring for a provocative evening. Meanwhile, Izayoi reflected on her future with Yayoi and stayed up reading, wondering what he was doing.

• Oboro told Yayoi that Hisana was waiting for him, and he followed her to the hot spring after learning his bath and meal were already prepared.
• Yayoi found Hisana and Kicho dressed as shrine maidens and teasingly asked whether he wanted to soak in the hot spring or “soak” in it first.
• Izayoi lay awake before her wedding, considering her feelings for Yayoi and how her role might change as his wife.
• Unable to sleep, Izayoi picked up a book and wondered whether Yayoi was also awake thinking about their wedding.

Izayoi married Yayoi in a ceremony attended by powerful guests, including Tobirama, who assessed the Land of Night’s growing strength. After the wedding, Izayoi and Yayoi began their wedding night, with Izayoi turning Yayoi’s teasing into a bold move of her own.

• Izayoi calmly dressed for the wedding and attended the shrine ceremony with Yayoi.
• Tobirama observed Yaya, the unfamiliar red-haired girl, and Kakuzu, and worried over the Land of Night’s growing military strength.
• The wedding ceremony continued smoothly and ended at dusk.
• Yayoi entered the bridal chamber and teased the bashful Izayoi.
• Izayoi shoved Yayoi down and began undoing her kimono sash, taking the lead on their wedding night.

After their wedding, Yayoi and Izayoi spent a week indulging in their new marriage, keeping Izayoi from training or leaving her room. When Izayoi finally insisted on training, Yayoi claimed he would teach her a Byakugan-free version of the Hyuga Clan’s Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven, but his ropes made her suspect another bedroom lesson.

• Izayoi woke embarrassed by the previous night, bathed with Yayoi, and changed into an ornate kimono before breakfast.
• Yayoi dismissed work on the first day of their marriage and persuaded Izayoi to stay with him in her quarters.
• For the following week, Yayoi and Izayoi spent most of their time together in the room, and Izayoi neglected training.
• Izayoi pushed Yayoi away and asked to train, but he offered to teach her the Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven without the Byakugan.
• Yayoi tied prepared ropes to the ceiling beam, and Izayoi suggested discussing tabi socks and sashes instead.

After half a month with Yayoi, Izayoi returned to training and encountered Hisana practicing in the General's Residence. Izayoi challenged her to spar, but Hisana asked whether they had ever met before.

• Izayoi left the house to resume training while Iori teased her about her married life.
• Izayoi went to the training ground and saw Hisana practicing taijutsu alongside a masked red-haired woman.
• Izayoi judged Hisana's movements to be inexperienced and learned that Kicho had assigned her a training task.
• Izayoi proposed sparring with Hisana to test her abilities, but Hisana wondered if they had met before.

Hisana and Izayoi fought after Izayoi took offense at Hisana’s words, and Hisana’s overwhelming strength left Izayoi battered. Just as Izayoi prepared to use Genjutsu, Hisana collapsed unconscious, leaving her opponent stunned.

• Izayoi challenged Hisana to a fight, while Oboro refused to intervene and agreed to referee.
• Hisana used Adamantine Sealing Chains to deflect Izayoi’s shuriken and force her to evade.
• Hisana charged Izayoi, then smashed the ground with a powerful punch that sent Izayoi tumbling through the dust.
• Hisana asked if Izayoi was all right, and Izayoi rejected her concern while planning to use Genjutsu.
• Before Izayoi could finish forming her Fire Release hand seals, Hisana fell face-first and lost consciousness.

Izayoi defeated Hisana with Sharingan Genjutsu, though Hisana’s easy defeat left her suspicious. Yayoi confirmed that Hisana was hiding a savage true form and said Kicho was helping keep it suppressed, leaving Izayoi eager to witness it.

• Izayoi’s Sharingan Genjutsu knocked Hisana unconscious, and Oboro dispelled it and declared Izayoi the winner.
• Hisana praised Izayoi’s Sharingan and asked her to use it as a sleep aid, so Izayoi knocked her unconscious again and left.
• That evening, Izayoi told Yayoi she suspected Hisana had deliberately lost the spar, and Yayoi confirmed that Hisana was hiding things.
• Yayoi hinted that Hisana had an extremely savage form and said Kicho was helping suppress it.
• Izayoi resolved to witness Hisana’s true form and felt confident that she and her allies had the advantage.

Izayoi began a rigorous training routine after realizing she needed to improve her Taijutsu, then met Kicho, Yayoi’s principal wife. Kicho welcomed Izayoi into the family and gave her the Oda Clan’s secret Living Chakra Technique, leaving Izayoi to study it later.

• Izayoi woke to find Yayoi had left and resolved to focus more on Taijutsu training.
• Izayoi spent the morning strengthening her body, then planned to train in Ninjutsu and Genjutsu that afternoon.
• Kicho visited Izayoi’s private training ground and invited her to call her big sister.
• Kicho gave Izayoi a scroll containing the Living Chakra Technique and warned her not to share it without permission.
• Kicho told Izayoi she could come to her for help before leaving to attend to her training and young son.

Izayoi asked Kicho to teach her Taijutsu, while Yayoi watched the samurai test their newly developed long-range sword technique. After Kurobei proposed an open tournament to attract samurai from across the Ninja World, Yayoi considered naming its winner the Ninja World's Greatest Swordsman.

• Izayoi asked Kicho to teach her Taijutsu, and Kicho agreed to begin with Gentle Fist the next day.
• Twenty samurai tested their Sword Cannon-like slashes against Irori, blasting through her massive ice wall and carving a deep trench in the ground.
• Yayoi praised the samurai's stable new technique and said they could now work on increasing its power and range.
• Kurobei proposed holding an open samurai tournament to attract skilled fighters from other countries and share their experience.
• Yayoi considered the tournament and suggested that its final victor could receive the title of the Ninja World's Greatest Swordsman.